The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONSometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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